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(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 F. BRABY &B. SCAR'LES. Means for SecuringFence Wires. I NO. 239,083. Patented -March22, i88l.'

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FREDERICK BRABY AND BENJAMIN SOARLES, OF 356 EUSTON ROAD, COUNTY OFMIDDLESEX, ENGLAND.

MEANS FOR SECURING FENCE-WIRES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 239,083, dated March22, 1881.

Application filed December 8, 1880. (No model.) Patented in EnglandJanuary 14, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, FREDERICK BRABY and BENJAMIN SCARLES, both of No.356 Euston Road, in the county of Middlesex,England, have invented anewand useful improved appliance for securing metal wires, strands, rods,or bars to posts and other supports for fencing, hurdles, and otherpurposes, (for which we have obtained a patent in Great Britain, N o.173, hearing date January 14, 1880,) of which the followingis aspecification.

This invention has more particularly for its object to afford a, readyand simple means whereby the wires, strands, rods, or bars of fencingmaybe secured to the posts and be again detached when required.

According to our present invention the wire, strands, rods, or bars,instead of beingthreaded through holes in the posts, are passedlaterally into a slot extending from the one side of the bartransversely into the body of the post, in which slot the wire, strand,rod, or bar is held by means of aloose filling-piece, which is afterwardintroduced and secured by alock- 2 5 ing device, so that thefilling-piece and wire can be readily removed when required. By thismeans the fixing and removal of the wires, bars, or rods may be efiectedwith great facility and consequent saving of labor, and barbed wire canbe secured to metal posts as easily as other wire. For this purpose,according to one arrangement, we form in theposta transverse slot, andwe fix upon. or. around it a similarly-slotted socket, ferrule, ordouble cheek, which strengthens the post sufficiently at the sides andback to compensate for the weakening by the slot. The wire, rod, or barhaving been inserted in the slot, a loose filling-piece is introducedand is secured in the mannerto be presently described. According toanother modification the post or support is not slotted, buthasaprojecting slotted bracket fixed thereto, in the slot of which the wireis secured, as described. I

Although we have described the said invention as particularly applicableto wire fencing, yet it is also applicable with great advantage to otherpurposes, such as the manufacture of iron hurdles, when these are intended for transport, in order to enable the cross-bars of the hurdlesto be readily connected to and detached from the standards, so that thewhole of the separate parts can be packed within a comparatively smallcompass. I

Figures 1 to 9 of the accompanying drawingsshow the arrangements whichweprefer to employ when applying our invention to fencing and hurdles.

Fig. 1 shows a part side view, and Fig. 2 a frontview, of a tubularmetal post, A, having a transverse slot' at B, and having fitted arounditat, that point the slotted ferrule or double cheek G, which isprovided with a loose piece, I), (shown separately in elevation and planat Figs. 3 and 4,) which is fitted with its two horns, D, into the slotwhen the wire has been inserted, and is secured in its place by a wireloop, Gr, pivoted to the check at G, and having a certain amount ofspring action, so that when it is drawn down over the head of the loosepiece D it will spring into the notch thereof, as shown at Fig. 5, andwill press the loose piece against the wire with sufficientnippingaction to hold it firmly.

Figs. 6 and 7 show, respectively, a side elevation and plan of the sameconstruction applied to a flat bar post, the loose piece D having inthis case a single horn, D, of the full width of the bar and cheek.

The ferrule or cheek G maybe secured to the post or bar by galvanizing,soldering, or brazing; or it may be fixed by passing the pin G, formingthepivots for the wire loop, right through the post and cheeks; or thecheeks may be secured in the manner shown in side elevation and plan atFigs. 8 and 9, which show the same applied to a solid round barhaviugportions punched out, so as to form notches, as shown at me, Fig. 10. Inthis case the cheek is made open in front, as indicated by dotted lines,and after being slid into the notch from the back has its front endsbent round the front edge of the bar, as indicated at y y, the upperpart being, by preference, arranged to lap over from the one side, whilethe lower part laps over from the other side.

' It will be evident that the above-described method of securing wires,rods, or bars in slots in posts might be employed without the use of theferrule or cheek G, the filling-piece D being applied to the slot of thepost itself, to

which also the wire loop G is fitted; but we prefer to use thestrengthening-cheek in combination.

Figs. 11 and 12 show, respectively, a side and front View of the deviceapplied to a bracket, H, which may be fixed upon posts, walls, trees, orother convenient objects.

It will be evident that, in place of the pivoted wire loop in the abovearrangements, there mightbe employed a ring or closed loop passing roundthe back of the post, or a piece of wire might be bent round and securedby twisting its ends together.

Fig. 13 shows a side view, and Fig. 14 a front view, of a modificationin which theloose filling-piece D is secured without the aid of the wireloop G. For this purpose it is made with a slight swell toward themiddle of its width, as indicated by dotted lines, and the slot of thecheek is correspondingly hollowed, the swell and hollow being made totaper off toward the front, so that when in place the filling-piece D,being held in a dovetail, cannot be drawn out. For introducing it intoits place in the groove it is pushed in sidewise, the swell beingsufficiently slight to allow the cheek to spring open to that extentwhen pressure is applied and to close up again afterward. V The slot ofthe post or bar may either be correspondingly hollowed, or it may bemade entirely of the full width of the swell, so that it does notrequire to he sprung open.

For facilitating the insertion of the fillingpiece its side edges may beof slightly less width than the slot, as indicated at Fig. 14, and itmay be introduced and removed by the aid of atongs,-such as indicated atFig. 15, having two claws, I I, on one side, with a space between themcorresponding to thewidth of the slot, and having a single claw, I, onthe other side, opposite to and slightlylessin width than the saidspace. Thus it will be seen that by bringing the double claw to bear onthe one side of the cheek, while the single one is made to press thepiece D inward from the other side, it will be readily forced into itsplace, while, if the pressure of the single claw be continued, it willforce the filling-piece out again on the opposite side.

Figs. 16 and 17 show the same device applied to the fixing of arectangular bar, the filling-piece D being in this case slightlyhollowed, instead of being formed with a swell.

In the modification shown at Fig. 18 the slot and filling-piece are madeto widen out toward the outer edge up to the point Z, where shouldersare formed, preventing the filling-piece from being drawn outward.

Having thus described the nature of our invention and in what manner thesame is to be performed, we claim 1. The combination, with a bracket,post, or support having a slot for receiving a wire, of a detachablefilling-piece for securing'the wire and a lockin g device, substantiallyas described,for preventing the displacement of the filling-piece,substantially as specified.

2. In combination with a post or support having a lateral slot for thereception of a wire, strand, rod, or bar, a slotted cheek or ferrulehaving a loose filling-piece and a locking device, arranged andoperating substantially as herein set forth.

3. A device for securing wires, strands, rods, or bars to posts orsupports, consisting of the piece 0 with slot B, operating incombination with the loose filling-piece D and wire loop G, as hereindescribed.

' In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification,in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 16th day of November,A. D. 1880.

FRED. BRABY. BENJAMIN SOARLES. Witnesses:

(JHAs. D. ABEL, JNo. P. M. MILLARD.

